Chapter 6

Disclaimer: Tekken doesn't belong to me; it belongs to those dudes at Namco!

Writers Note:

Apparently I'm starting to write 'panda' with a capital P! All cause of writing Tekken fanficts! Have any of you had the same problem?

Anyway thanks for all the reviews!

"Princess Julia Chang, your betrothed awaits you in the Hall Of Mirrors room."

The young princess stood up from her chair by the window and smiled.

"Very well, thank you for your service servant," she said, handing the servant a smallish coin.

The servants face lit up and she bowed graciously. "No thanks required princess!" she said brightly, accepting the money and running off out the large room.

The princess sighed and walked out of the room.

In the Hall Of Mirrors

"Princess Julia!" Jin bowed down and took her hand; gently he kissed it gentlemanly.

Julia smiled glamorously and waved her right hand in the air.

Jin's sword whipped right out from his waist and the handle landed neatly in her hand.

"Wow, never knew you could do magic!" spoke the surprised prince.

"There are a lot of things you don't know about me!" she murmured. "Wanna match?" she asked.

Jin grinned back at Julia Chang. "Of course!"

"Xiao, have you seen a panda near the palace lately?"

Xiao shook her head. "Have you?"

Mi stared solemnly out the smallish window. Her eyes darted to each little area of the part of the garden, which she could see. "Afraid so, one of the guards asked me to ask you if you knew how to capture them! Apparently prince Jin wishes the panda to be his little play toy servant, probably wants the bear to be bear baited."

"But that's barbaric!"

Miharu turned around and frowned at her friend. "You know then?" she asked, reading Xiao like a book. She paused and then spoke again. "Your not soft enough to feel sorry for it, are you?"

Xiao shrugged her shoulders wearily and yawned. "Its not that I feel sorry for her. Its just I think its stupid to force a animal to entertain you with its antics."

"How do you know it's a girl?" asked Mi, prying even more into Xiao's secret life.

"Its just a guess Mi," laughed Ling. "Besides, a male panda wouldn't leave his territory, which is most probably in China, whereas a female panda might be a little desperate!"

At The Hall Of Mirrors

"Hey, you're a pretty good with a sword!" remarked Jin, pretending to wipe of sweat from his forehead.

"Yea, same with you…have you been taking lessons off someone lately?"

Jin looked up, remembering the little battles he had with Xiao.

Hand to hand combat wasn't as good as his, but Xiao's sword skills were ten times better!

"How would you know the way I used to fight?" he asked suspiciously.

Julia leant her head on Jin's shoulder. "I've seen you swordfight a couple of times, mind it isn't as good as you're hand to hand!"

At Night In Xiao's Room
Xiao looked up at the horizon, searching for any signs of the sun. Carefully she leapt off her bed and silently crept towards the door of the room.

She could hear faint gently roaring.

"It must be the panda," she thought as she crept into the servant's hallway.

The black and white patched bear sniffled around the garden flowers. She could smell someone nearby, but this someone didn't seem to be threatening to her.

Xiao approached the panda; she held a large leaf in her hand and waved it near the panda's nose.

"You want it panda?" she whispered gently, walking slowly closer and closer towards the bear.

"Strange, she seems familiar!" thought the panda. Carefully the creature approached Xiao and gently sniffed Xiao's hands. Then quickly she bit into the large green leaf and roared gratefully.

Xiao bent down so that her eyes were level with the panda's eyes.

"You seem familiar!" she whispered.

Xiao smiled and sat down cross-legged, watching the panda, admiring its large paws, its friendly face and occasional soft growls.

"I don't think you're a type of panda that can risk being locked up!" she whispered.

The panda looked up inquisitively at Xiao.

A Week Later

"Xiao, how come you never came for the practice?" asked Jin curiously.

"I heard someone else was normally with you at that time, and I thought maybe she was teaching you." Xiao said calmly, continuing to pull up the weighty water filled bucket.

Jin frowned at Xiao. "What exactly have you been doing since then?"

Xiao stopped and stood stock-still. Her eyes peered deeper and deeper into the large well. Her arms still grasped the large wrench tightly. "I…well, I was just helping the gardeners out, and occasionally odd jobs."

"So I guess, since you've been outside, have you seen a panda around?"

Xiao shook her head and started to continue pulling up the bucket, which seemed to be getting heavier.

"Right. What about tonight?"

Xiao grasped the bucket that had popped up from the large well and carefully placed it onto the ground. "What about tonight?" She shifted her weight nervously onto her other foot so as to lift up the bucket of water.

"Don't you want to…spar?"

Xiao looked up straight into Jin's eyes, and then she spoke a little quickly. "Sorry sire, but I have jobs to do!"

Jin smiled at Xiao. In truth, he wondered about her.

"Xiao, come on! What, are you afraid I'll beat you, for the fifth time?" he taunted.

Xiao grinned back at Jin. "Alright, I'll come, but only if we get a little sword fight at the end!"

The Fight

She dived away from his fierce punch. Upon landing on her feet with her hands wide on the floor she executed the front layout move and landed a meter away from Jin, then quickly with accuracy and swiftness she performed her raccoon swing, then her sunset fan and finished it off with her fortune cookie combo.

Prince Jin dived and blocked, foolishly letting the occasional blow hit him. Her moves were swift, yet didn't hold as much power as Jin's.

Jin blocked part of the fortune cookie move and fiercely kicked Xiao in the stomach. Seeing the foot move towards her stomach in an incredible force she took in a deep breath and dived to Jin's left.

Slowly Xiao got up; both their breathing patterns were quite hard and fierce.

They had been fighting for over half an hour!

"Why don't you ever give up?" asked Prince Jin.

"I was never taught to give up!"

They encircled each other for a minute then Jin launched his super combo demon fury punch. A huge beam of dark purple light emitted from his own hands and smashed through Xiao's guard, sending her flying to the ground within seconds.

Xiao carefully pushed herself up; through the bruises she was determined to defeat the prince in combat.

She coughed and spluttered, and then she stood in a different position. Her right arm held securely over her head in a mouth gaping pose. Her left arm in a much lower position, together the stance seemed to form the fierce beak of a creature.

Prince Jin grinned. "What sort of stance is that?" he asked.

"Though I study various Chinese marshal arts…I also study the ways of animals, and have developed my own style of fighting; entwining it with my knowledge of other fighting techniques."

Xiao stood firm and solid with a face that showed no emotion.

"This stance is called the 'Rise Of The Phoenix,' hopefully you are aware of the tale.

Prince Jin nodded and stood in his own stance.

"Lets get this over with!"

Xiao nodded in agreement. "Lets!"

Jin charged at Xiao aiming to pay a blow to her head, with no match of speed like Xiao's he implemented his 'Demon Paw' move, instead of infiltrating Xiao, the attack was stopped in its racks by Xiao.

Her gaze was strangely fierce yet calm. Xiao held Jin's fist simply in her hand, then she let it go only to plant a kick in his stomach.

The fight went on with Xiao blocking a few of the attacks, and sometimes countering them. As time went on she knew she was getting tired, and her blocking wasn't as swift.

Jin saw it as his chance to perform his triple spinning kick, sending Xiao through the air and onto the ground.

Jin smiled in pride and at his success. "Impressive!"

Xiao shook her head, trying to get out of her daze, she reached out to grab onto something that would help to pull her up, she felt a warm sweaty hand clench hers and haul her up.

Her eyes and his eyes gazed at each other. Xiao blushed and tried to move her hand away, only to realise that Prince Jin wasn't letting go of her.

"Prince Jin?" A strangely smooth voice rang out in the room.

Immediately Jin removed his hand from Xiao's.

"You may enter…Princess!"

Upon hearing the words the agile princess opened the door and walked into the room.

She looked at the servant and then at Prince Jin, raising her eyebrows at both of them.

Writers Note:
So, wot do ya think is gonna happen next!
Come on and review plz, will try to get the next chapter up as soon as my brain is willing to write more!